Word: disgustful
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...this display of violence towards women provocative? Yes, it is. It provokes anger, outrage and disgust. It is an image of women as objects of violence and sexual abuse. Is that what what we want to use the mainstage to provoke...
...Broadway, it ran afoul of the performers' union, Actors' Equity, and assorted ethnic lobbying groups. Charges that Mackintosh had not sought out enough Asian Americans escalated into a probe of racial hiring practices on all his shows; at one point he canceled the Broadway engagement in disgust and, he now reveals, reverted Miss Saigon's rights to its authors. The battles ended, as everyone always predicted, with Broadway making way for a much needed...
Watching the videotape, thinking about the other police-brutality cases -- the alleged fatal choking of a suspected car thief by five of New York City's finest, for example -- Americans felt degrees of wonder, horror or, in some cases, disgust at the news media for undermining the police...
...nemesis of the Crusaders, was a Kurd. But this time, they have been helped by a convergence of propitious factors. Because Baghdad at first considered the unrest in the Shi'ite areas more threatening, it moved troops in the north southward, giving the guerrillas a more open field. Popular disgust with Saddam's disastrous Kuwaiti adventure fertilized the ground. "Uprising is an art," says Jalal Talabani, Damascus-based leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. "There must be a climate...
...person who perhaps best expresses the pervasive disgust is Laila al- Qadhi, a Kuwait University English professor. Few say on the record what al-Qadhi says, but many agree with her. "At best," says al-Qadhi, "we have a democracy tailored for a few. It can't be real, of course, until women and the children of expatriates who are born here are entitled to vote as full citizens. Certainly those who stayed and fought for Kuwait while the cowards fled deserve to participate in their government. But I am not optimistic. Many will collaborate to restore the old order...